Project

An anonymous chat application to keep your identity safe.

Features

• Create new chat rooms.
• Join existing chat rooms.
• Set your anonymous username.
• Real-time message delivery.
• Chat without creating an account.

How does flack keep the user anonymous?

• Flack does not store users' communications via chatrooms in Flack's database server and once a message's delivered it'll be disposed of, however, it remains in the owner's session until the owner logged out.
• It lets users choose a nickname due to sake of users' identities.

• Passwords are encrypted
• Nicknames represent users behind their identities.

Technology Stack Used In This Project

• Python
• Flask
• JavaScript
• Socket Programming
• BootStrap
• JQuery
• HTML/CSS

Flack Live

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Run This Project on Your Local Machine

1. Clone the repository to your local desktop

   git clone paste_link_you_copied
   

2. Change the directory

   cd FlackApp
   

3. Install requirements.txt

   pip install -r requirements.txt 
   

4. Run the following command to create a database locally

   python create.py
   

5. Set environment variables in your shell

   export FLASK_APP=application.py
   

6. Run the application

   flask run
   

How to Contribute

1. Make a Fork.
2. Clone the repository to your local desktop.

   git clone paste_link_you_copied
   

3. Create a new branch (It's necessary).

   git checkout -b branch-name
   

4. Make changes and Add to Staging here.

   git add.
   

5. Commit changes.

   git commit -m "Message you want to write"
   

   • Always write the message short and easy to understand (ideally 3 to 5 words).
6. Push the changes so that a pull request will be generated.

   git push -u origin branchName
   

7. Make PR.
8. Commits should be descriptive.
9. Try to minimize conflicts.
10. Follow these steps only after you have Git installed in your system.

Where to Contribute

1. UX/UI
   • You can improve the existing User Interface or can introduce a new layout for Flack.
2. Code reformat
   • You can introduce more concise and readable code
3. Improvements in Backend
   • You can find any bug or error and can fix it
4. Readme file
   • If you think that something is missing from the readme file. You can introduce new sections for the readme file or can improve the existing one.

Click here to Contribute